Senior Software Engineer, Workday
Intelligent Orchestration
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- As a Senior Engineer in our team, you will be responsible for designing and developing scalable components, microservices and libraries using our technology stack in a highly distributed environment
- Among other technologies, we frequently use Scala, Akka, Gradle, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, ZooKeeper and Linux
- 5+ years experience with Scala, or advanced Java with an interest in Scala / functional programming
- Experience with distributed, concurrent, high-performance systems
- Interest or experience in one or more of the following is advantageous: Akka, Kafka or Zookeeper
- UNIX or Linux experience
- BS in Computer Science or related fields
- Love to solve problems with code – and prove code works via automation!
- Have a passion for developing distributed systems and delivering them at scale while planning for future growth
- Design and develop enterprise solutions with high quality standards and advocate continuous delivery
- Have a strong sense of ownership, having worked on and monitored a service in a production environment
- Are excited by shipping new features and know that delivering to production takes more than just coding
- Strive to understand the big picture. Given the choice, you would prefer to collaborate than to go at it alone
- Continuously endeavor to grow your skill set
- Love to work in an environment where teams are given autonomy and are empowered to succeed
- You will join a world-class team so you must be a team player with great communication skills
What the job involves
- The Intelligent Orchestration team is responsible for some of Workday’s core service orchestration technologies, which are deployed in Workday’s data center and public cloud environments
- Within this team, we are responsible for Workday’s optimized job processing platform, which executes some of the largest customer jobs in Workday
- We are a core part of the Workday stack, working with concurrent and distributed systems to provide this background job processing platform for our internal and external customers
- Our platform performs mission critical processing for our customers and has a key role in the scalability of Workday’s platform
- The team is constantly innovating and evolving to build the next generation of critical Workday services
- Designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs distributed software programs for enhancements and new products across multiple disciplines and multiple platforms
- Capable of designing and implementing software able to manage the tradeoffs between data consistency, availability, partition tolerance
- Develop, design and deploy software and tools in support of a data processing system, including highly concurrent transaction processing, distributed memory management, communication protocols, and efficient distributed data algorithms
- The role will involve designing, developing and deploying a critical production service, including working on highly concurrent transaction processing, distributed memory management, communication protocols, and algorithms for distributed processing
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, Workday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & CEO)Annel began their career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. They then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005.
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